From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261391AbVFCQxY (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Jun 2005 12:53:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261392AbVFCQxY (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Jun 2005 12:53:24 -0400 Received: from coyote.holtmann.net ([217.160.111.169]:48574 "EHLO mail.holtmann.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261391AbVFCQxU (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Jun 2005 12:53:20 -0400 Subject: RE: [patch 2.6.12-rc3] dell_rbu: Resubmitting patch for new DellBIOS update driver From: Marcel Holtmann To: Abhay_Salunke@Dell.com Cc: greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, Matt_Domsch@Dell.com In-Reply-To: <367215741E167A4CA813C8F12CE0143B3ED3A5@ausx2kmpc115.aus.amer.dell.com> References: <367215741E167A4CA813C8F12CE0143B3ED3A5@ausx2kmpc115.aus.amer.dell.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 18:53:00 +0200 Message-Id: <1117817580.3656.88.camel@pegasus> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Abhay, > > No no no. Just because you are using the firmware interface, does not > > mean you need to add this extra round-trip to the whole system. Just > > dump the firmware to the /sys/firmware/whatever... file whenever you > > want to, that's all that is needed. No hotplug stuff, no filename > > stuff, just a simple copy. > Greg, all the feedback gave the impression that request_firmwae hotplug > stuff was the way to go. Seems it's not required! Now that means it > needs to be done the way it was before except that it needs to have a > bin attribute for data and a normal attribute for size. > This would be even better as it makes it easy to read back the data. last time this was discussed somewhere on Linux SCSI with HBA or RAID adapter card, all pointed to request_firmware(). If Greg disagrees then I am sorry that I told you to use this interface. Regards Marcel